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Engineering the ADA from Vision to Reality with Technology
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(16th, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 12-17, 1993). Volume 13.
RESNA: Association for the Advancement of Rehabilitation
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Technology, Washington, DC.
ISBN-0-932101-33-X
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Adults; Appropriate Technology; *Assistive Devic.3s (for
DESCRIPTORS
Disabled); *Augmentative and Alternative Communication;
*Computer Uses in Education; Delivery Systems;
*Disabilities; *Educational Technology; Elementary Secondary
Education; Employment; Federal Legislation; Gerontology;
Learning Disabilities; Mobility Aids; Older Adults; Public
Policy; Rehabilitation Programs; Robotics; Severe
Disabilities; Special Education; Teacher Education;
Transitional Programs; Transportation
Americans with Disabilities Act 1990
IDENTIFIERS
ABSTRACT
This compilation of presentations from RESNA's conference
proceedings focused on the progress and potential of assistive and
rehabilitation technology for individuals with disabilities and ways that
RESNA members could help these ideas to be realized. Papers were presented on
(1) service delivery and public policy issues;
(2)
the following topics:
(3) augmentative and alternative communication;
(4)
personal transportation;
(6) special education, including
(5) quantitative assessment;
droolin:7;
disabilities, wearable
computer applications for students with learning
with memory or attention
computers that give verbal guidance to people
impairments, transitioning students with severe disabilities into the
workplace, use of an intelligent cognitive aid to facilitate the
self-management of vocational skills by high school students with learning
disabilities, computer related employment and student training, and training
(8) sensory
(7) technology transfer;
teachers to use assistive technology;
(10) electrical stimulation;
(11)
(9) wheeled mobility and seating;
aids;
(13) assistive robotics and
computer applications; (12) rural rehabilitation;
(15) information
(14) job accommodation and employment issues;
mechatronics;
(16) gerontology; and (17) Easter Seal Student Design
networking;
Competition. Presentations include references.
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PROCEEDINGS
of the
RESNA '93
Annual Conference
Engineering the ADA
From Vision to Reality
with Technology
June 12-17, 1993
Mirage Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada
Mary Binion
Editor
Donny Loux
John Chambers
Conference Co-Chairs
RESNAPRESS
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Proceedings of the RESNA '93 Annual Conference
Las Vegas, Nevada
June 12-17, 1993
Volume 13
ISSN 0883-4741
ISBN 0-932101-33-X
Copyright @ 1993
RESNA
All rights reserved. This book or any part thereof may not be
reproduced in any form without the permission of the publisher.
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Foreword
RESNA, a long time leader in empowerment of people with disabilities
through technology, is widely
recognized for its role in passage of the Americans with Disabilities
Act in 1990.
In 1993 RESNA
members remain vigilant in the realization that full implementation
of ADA precepts has been measured
in steps rather than leaps and continues to face major challenges
every day. Many of these continuing
challenges are systemic, some are attitudinal, but key to overcoming
the major barriers to the full inclusion
for people with disabilities envisioned by the ADA is
access to appropriate, affordable, accessible
technology.
How does technology become appropriate? By building partnerships
between its envisioners and its
consumers. How to make it affordable? By adding more partners from manufacturing,
from medicine,
from business, government, education, rehabilitation and the
non-profit sector.
And what about
accessible? How about combining these growing partnerships
with the Logic Model developed by
consultant Michael Morris.
If Assistive Technology is of high quality, thoughtfully
designed and faithfully backed by its
manufacturer, and
If individuals with disabilities, and the professionals who
serve them, are knowledgeable about
the benefits and availability of Assistive Technology, and
If financing is available to help make Assistive Technology
affordable, and
If that funding is well financed, consistent and flexible,
THEN individuals with disabilities will enjoy increased
independence and self-sufficiency, full
community participation, and greater quality of life.
RESNA '93 celebrates these partnerships and precepts by bringing
together the nations most prominent
visionaries. Some have disabilities, some do not. All share
a critical role in making inclusion and choice
by words of the future. One of those great visionaries,
Justin Dart, is this year's E&J Distinguished
Lecturer. During the past eight years he assumed
a leadership role in the development and advocacy for
national disability policy, particularly the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA). During the formulation
of the ADA legislation Justin made seven major national trips
to solicit input and urge united advocacy
for its passage, visiting each of the 50 states at least three times.
As Chairperson of the Congressional
Task Force on the Rights and Empowerment of Americans with
Disabilities, he again traveled throughout
the nation holding public forums and meeting with
more than 30,000 members of the disability
community. In 1990, appearing on the dais with President Bush
at the signing of the ADA, he received
the national award for leadership essential to the Enactment of
the Americans with Disabilities Act.
There is perhaps no single American who
more personifies the spirit of the ADA and its tie to the
opportunities created by advancing technology. A wheelchair
user since 1948, Justin has utilized and
advocated a combination of technology and independent living
to establish a permanent disability presence
in the U.S. and throughout the international community.
On behalf of Justin, the organizers of this year's conference, the
RESNA Board of Directors, and the many
Nevadans with disabilities who plan to participate in RESNA
'93, we welcome you to Las Vegas! You
represent the progress of the present and the hope of tomorrow,
we are truly honored to act as your hosts
and to share in your work and in your commitment.
John Chambers and Donny Loux
RESNA '93 Conference Co-Chairs
Gregg C. Vanderheiden
RESNA President
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III
Preface
Welcome to RESNA '93 Engineering the ADAFrom Vision to Reality with Technology.
This conference is not only about the progress and potential of assistive and
rehabilitation technology, but about the ways that we as RESNA members can make the
ideas be realized.
This conference is about change. The format of the conference continues to evolve to
reflect the ways information can be shared.
Following the implementation of a
standardized paper review process, the author kit was revised to clarify the paper
submission process. This year, the scientific program includes not only platform paper
a great emphasizes on interactive
and computer
but
presentations,
sessions
demonstrations. There is also time during the conference to gather informally without
the hectic pace that usually seems to drive this conference.
Change is also found in the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and others as they
collaborate to jointly sponsor special sessions. Meeting participants will benefit from the
cross fertilization of ideas, concepts, and believes. We are also joined at this year's
conference by the United States Society for Augmentative and
Alternative
Communication, USSAAC members, the RESNA Technical Assistance Project, and
representatives from the Tech Act states. We welcome the addition of the Drooling SIG
to the Conference this year, as well as active participation from RESNA's international
members from Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Australia, the Far East, and Europe.
RESNA as an organization is changing. 'The most important single process involved in
effective change is the process of learning while doing.
The complexity of change
demands that feedback and replanning make up the essential core of change
management." Richard Beckhard and Wendy Pritchard in Changing the Essence: 'The
Art of Creating and Leading Fundamental Change in Organizations.
The RESNA Town Meeting is a call to all RESNA members to join with the Executive
Committee, Board of Directors, and Committee Chairpersons to discuss the changes in
and future of RESNA. This interactive meeting will provide an opportunity for focussed
RESNA's future is
discussion on RESNA's goals, objectives, and future activities.
certainly a time for learning while doing. Plan on attending this session to help make
RESNA what you want it to be.
Congratulations to the Local Conference Chairpersons, Donny Loux and John Chambers,
the Local Committee, the Meetings Committee, the SIG Chairpersons, and the RESNA
This is a conference that I
staff for assembling a conference of exceptional quality.
would gamble on to be a winner!
Mary Binion
Chair, Scientific Program
and Special Interest Groups Program
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RESNA Board of Directors
Executive Committee
President
Gregg Vanderheiden, PhD
Trace R&D Center, University of Wisconsin
President Elect
Clifford E Brubaker, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Health & Rehab Sciences
Secretary
Alexandra Enders, OTR
RTC Rural, University of Montana
Treasurer
Jan C Galvin
National Rehabilitation Hospital
At Large Members
Rachel Wobschall, MIM
Minnesota Star Program
Paul N Hale Jr, PhD PE
Louisiana Tech University REC
Immediate Past President
Douglas A Hobson, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Health & Rehab Sciences
Board of Directors
David Cooper MS Kin, Sunny Hill Hospital
Albert M Cook, PhD PE, California State University
Ken Kozo le, BSME OTR, Sharp Rehabilitation Center
Anthony J Langton, MS, South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation
David F Law Jr, Woodrow Wilson Rehab Center
Beth Mineo PhD, AI duPont Institute ASEL
Jean Minkel MA PT, Helen Hayes Hospital
Bany A Romich, BSE PE, Prentke Romich Company
Carol Sargent BSEE OTRa., Marianjoy Rehab Hospital & Clinics
Michael Silverman, Pin Dot Products
Elaine Trefler, OTR Med FAOTA, Pittsburgh, PA
Robert Van Etten MSE BSE, Adaptive Living
Gerald Weisman, MS, Vermont REC
Past Presidents
Richard A Foulds PhD, AI duPont Institute ASEL
C Gerald Warren MPA, C Gerald Warren & Associates
Sheldon R Simon MD, Ohio State University
Dudley S Childress PhD, Northwestern University
Morris Milner PhD PEng CCE, Hugh MacMillan Rehabilitation Centre
Donald R McNeal PhD, Rancho Los Amigos REC
Colin A Mc Laurin ScD, University of Virginia REC
James B Reswick ScD, National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research
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Conference Organizing Committee
Conference Chairs
Donny Loux, Nevada Rehabilitation Division
John Chambers, Nevada Developmental Disabilities Council
Meetings Committee Chair
Donald R McNeal PhD, Rancho REC
Scientific Program
Mary Binion, Ohio Resource Ctr
Anthony J Langton MS, South Carolina Voc Rehab
Instructional Program
Susan Johnson Taylor OTR/L, Shepherd Spinal Ctr
Carol A Sargent BSEE OTR/L, Marianjoy Rehab Hosp
Exhibits
Kevin Caves, Rancho REC/CART
Accessibility
Anthony J Langton MS, So Carolina Voc Rehab
Computer Tech Lab
Denis Anson OTR, Univ Washington
Student Design Competition
David F Law Jr, Woodrow Wilson Rehab Ctr
Local Arrangements Committee
Bea Babbitt, UNLV Sch Spec Ed
Michele Coty, Nevada Community Enrichment Ctr
Barbara Darling, City of Las Vegas
Mary Evilsizer, Nevada Assn for the Handicapped
Paul Gowins, Nevada AT Project
Robert Hogan, Nevada Community Enrichment Ctr
Lonnie James, UCP of Nevada
Susan Lucia-Terry, UCP Nevada AT Loan Program
Jack Reid, Nevada AT Project
Denise Robertson, City of Las Vegas
Jerry Samplawski, Nevada Assn for Handicapped
Elaine Smith, Nevada Rehabilitation Division
Anita Stockbauer, UNLV Student Support Svcs
Billie Tucker, Nevada Rehabilitation Division
William Wells, UNLV Sch Engineering
Conference Management
Dennis E Smeage, Executive Director
Susan P Leone, Meetings Director
Cele Fogarty, Convention Manager
Francine Garner, Registrar
Terry Reamer, Membership Coordinator
RESNA Gratefully
...acknowledges conference support
from the following PATRONS
IBM Cmporation
National Easter Seal Society
Apple Computers, Inc
Office of Special Education
Nevada Rehabilitation Division
Assistive Technology Project
Everest & Jennings, Inc
Sunrise Medical, QuicIde Designs
Kuschall of America
Casa Colina Rehabilitation Hospital
USSAAC
Prentke Romich Company
Semantic Compaction Systems
Hear Our Voices
...recognizes the assistance of
the following organizations
City of Las Vegas
Nevada Developmental Disabilities Council
Las Vegas Parks & Leisure
Las Vegas Visitor and Convention Authority
Marianjoy Rehab Hospital & Clinics
Merit Reporting
Nevada Community Enrichment Center
Nevada Association for the Handicapped
Nevada Technologies, Inc.
Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living
Ohio Resource Center for Low Incidence & Severely Handicapped
Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center
Shepherd Spinal Center
South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department
United Cerebral Palsy of Nevada
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Washington, Seattle
Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SIG-01: Service Delivery & Public Policy Issues
An Internship Program for the Training of Rehabilitation Engineers
2
Assistive Technology Career Development Project
4
A Training Program in Rehabilitation Engineering: A Student's Perspective
7
Assistive Technology Training at Northern Arizona University
10
Collaboration of Occupational Therapists and Vocational
Rehabilitation Counselors in the Application of Assistive Technology
12
Continuous Quality Improvement in Assistive Technology
Establishing, Maintaining, Measuring
14
Improving Service Delivery of Assistive Technology:
From Specialists to Consultants
17
A Model of Rehabilitation Engineering Services in an Acute
Rehabilitation Setting
20
Automation of an Assistive Technology Center
23
FCC Part 15 Certification: A Necessary Step in Development of Assistive Devices
26
Sources of Funding for Research and Development in Assistive Technology
28
Resisting Assistants with Assistive Assistance
31
Vocational Orthotics for "Reasonable Accommodation"
34
Piano "Pedal Actuator"
36
Consumers Who Choose Use
39
A Study in Accessibility of a College Campus
41
A Model for the Evaluation and Selection of Adaptive Computer Interfaces
43
The Rehabilitation Technology Resource Center
- Three years Later
46
Assessing Outcomes of AT Use: The Revised Consumer Form of the
"Assistive Technology Device Predisposition Assessment (ATD PA)"
49
Survey of Assistive Technology Service Delivery in CARF
Accredited Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs
51
The Rehabilitation Engineering Training Program at Wright State University
54
Assistive Technology Services at Shepherd Spinal Center, Inc
57
Teamwork - An Interdisciplinary Approach
58
Adaptive Equipment Services via Mobile Service Delivery in North Dakota
60
Utah Assistive Technology Foundation to Facilitate Funding
for Assistive Technology
62
Americans with Disabilities Act: Accessibility on the "Path of Travel"
64
The European Single Market in Rehabilitation Technology
66
An Environment for Control Assessment
68
A Thorough and Systematic Approach to Accessibility Auditing
of Existing Facilities
71
SIG-02: Personal Transportation
Performance Testing of Wheelchair Lifts for Personal Licensed Vehicles
74
Testing Procedures for Wheelchair Securement System Standards
77
Factors Affecting Wheelchair Occupant Injury in Crash Simulation
80
Determining the Transportation Safety of Chest Supports and Pelvic Restraints
83
Static Testing of Commercial Headrests to Evaluate Transportation Safety
86
Toward Understanding Consumer Concerns About Transporting Children
with Physical Disabilities in the Family Car
89
Wheelchair Aviation: Case Studies and Survey of Adaptive Engineering Needs
92
SIG-03: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
A Study of the Information Capacity of Human Eye Movement
for Augmentative Communication
96
Advanced Input Methods for People with Cerebral Palsy: A Vision of the Future
99
Predictions of Computer Interface Skills for Children with Mental Retardation
102
Improving Spoken Communication for Dysarthric Individuals Using
Voice Analysis and Synthesis
105
Dysart liric Speech Recognition: A Hidden Markov Modelling Approach
108